Strobist fame) excellent Off Camera Flash seminar last year
You know how as photographers we go through phases with our gear? For example, I go through phases where if I go to a shoot and I don’t have at least three big lenses, two camera bags, three cases of lights and a tripod that weighs more than my kids, I feel like I’m http://timberlandshop.us out there naked.
Well, right now for me, the pendulum has swung completely the other way. Now I’m in my “shoot light” phase, where I’m shooting with just one lens if I can get away with it, a very lightweight (but sturdy), tripod and if I have to bring lights, I want to bring one; ティンバーランド 靴preferably a off camera flash, like a Nikon SB-800. OK, maybe two SB-800s, but if I have to bring lightstands, they have to weight less than my daughter’s stuffed animals.
That’s why when I went to David Hobby’s (of the Strobist fame) excellent Off Camera Flash seminar last year (here’s the link to that story), he was speaking to my “less is more” mindset. I went and bought his exact on-location set-up (putting an SB-800 on a super compact, lightweight light stand with a hot shoe adapter clip and firing the flash thru a shoot-through umbrella), and I find myself using it more and more (see this link for more on me using it in the field). That’s a photo the basic rig below.
On this World AIDS Day 2011 it is important to pay tribute to all those who have died of HIV/AIDS and help those who are living with the disease. My first encounter with HIV/AIDS was during a trip I took to Cambodia in 2009*. It was there that I visited a small rural village with the UN World Food Programme. A priest, who himself was an American Vietnam vet, had moved to this village and set up a school for children who were HIV positive and a small clinic to treat them and their families. We first visited the kids, who were all different ages but all huddled around the single teacher. Some children ティンバーランド ブーツ were more vibrant than others, but I was told that all were receiving ARV treatments due to the generosity of donations to the center. The kids were curious about me, a white woman visitor from a foreign land, but the longer I sat with them the more